
Roots
IrishCentral’s repository of everything to do with your Irish roots – from Irish history, your ancestors, your Irish name, to ancient myth, legend and folklore.

TimeOut names Irish enclave of Woodlawn one of best neighborhoods in New York
The only known painting of The Great Hunger to come to US
Top Irish Archbishop asks for “no glorification” for Easter 1916
The American dollar sign was created – accidentally – by a bankrupt Irishman
Ireland during 1916 and in present day 2016 (VIDEO)
Findmypast is free this weekend!
Our Irish ancestors: How they had fun in New York City
New graphic novel tells the story of Ireland’s Great Hunger (VIDEO)
Online exhibitions will bring people and untold stories of 1916 Rising characters to life
Most read
- 1 LAST CHANCE to WIN a trip to Ireland! Don't miss your chance to share your love letter
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History

Irish-led study finds physical evidence of gladiators battling lions from the Roman era
WATCH: What's a (1970s) house party without a take-home pack of Guinness?
How a white lie saved one Irish woman's life aboard the Titanic
Fascinating pensions records pre-Easter Rising and beyond reveals a wealth of Irish history
On This Day: Oscar Wilde's trial for "gross indecency" begins in London
Genealogy
